I don't think it necessarily has to be mutually exclusive. Erin Wasson () models for Maybelline, which is about as mass market as Cover Girl, and she's still on the runways. But usually, yes.

Maybelline and Covergirl's model choices are always a lot different. While Maybelline has had people like Erin and of course Christy Turlington... Covergirl has always been with more conventional beauties like Nikki Taylor or even *cough* Tyra. Maybelline's brand image is a lot different than Cover Girl...

I admittedly don't know the first thing about makeup, but I don't see a significant difference. Maybelline (also Josie Maran, Sarah Michelle Gellar) may try to have a slightly more cosmopolitan image, but in the end they're both youthful, commercial, conventional, right? I think Tyra's look is not too edgy, but she was definitely a true runway model once, doing the full runway circuit, so there's a better example.

VS itself is not slutty...its bras and panties for crying out loud. But the models...slutty. When the VS models do their commercials and crap, they are not posing for woman looking for a bra, they are posing for men who want fantasies. Their 'poses' and the way they construe the outfits is slutty.

I'm no prude, God knows I've done it all. But slutty is slutty.

As for wear I buy my undies, I do buy them at JC Pennies....unless you want to send me money so I can afford to buy expensive lingerie, I have to go within my budget.